About Jenny
Creative Director specializing in brand evolution, creative leadership, and making complex things feel human.
Jenny Nellis is an Emmy and Peabody-winning Creative Director who’s spent the last 15+ years bouncing between enterprise tech, comedy, entertainment, startups, and whatever category “working directly with Elon Musk before things got weird” falls into.
She’s led creative and design work for brands including The Onion, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah, Comedy Central, Thud, and Workato, where she most recently helped evolve the company’s global brand, marketing design, and AI-integrated creative workflows. Along the way, she’s built teams, launched products, rebranded platforms, and rolled with the punches.
Jenny specializes in turning complicated ideas into things that feel clear, smart, and human. Whether that’s in broadcast, digital products, brand systems, experiential work, or enterprise AI. Her work lives at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, systems thinking, and comedic timing, a combination that turns out to be surprisingly useful in both entertainment and SaaS. She’s also a mentor, amateur chef, dog lover and a reluctant but willing karaoke participant.
Awards
I’ve had the privilege of working alongside some very talented people, and here are a few of the awards we’ve earned together.
2013 | Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Variety Series (nominee)
2013 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series (nominee)
2013 | Critics' Choice Television Awards - Best Talk Show (winner)
2013 | GLAAD Media Awards - Outstanding Talk Show Episode (nominee)
2013 | Television Critics Association Awards - Outstanding Achievement in News and Information (nominee)
2014 | Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Variety Series (nominee)
2014 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series (nominee)
2014 | Critics' Choice Television Awards - Best Talk Show (nominee)
2014 | Television Critics Association Awards - Outstanding Achievement in News and Information (nominee)
2014 | American Comedy Awards - Best Late Night Talk Show (winner)
2015 | Peabody Awards (winner)
2015 | Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Variety Series (winner)
2015 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series (nominee)
2015 | Critics' Choice Television Awards - Best Talk Show (winner)
2015 | Television Critics Association Awards - Outstanding Achievement in News and Information (nominee)
2016 | Critics' Choice Television Awards - Best Talk Show (nominee)
2017 | GLAAD Media Awards - Outstanding Talk Show Episode (winner)